New female single sex student society launched at Cambridge university

Just joined as an affiliate alumna as well.

Only if you think that intelligence equates with decency, honesty and all those other heroic qualities.

You can be absolutely splendid at Latin, thermonuclear physics or the late mediaeval history of abandoned villages in Derbyshire and still an absolute dick.

It is shameful. But most of these students at elite universities are book smart only, and more child-like in other areas like dealing with opinions and views that conflict with their own, and being kind and thoughtful to others.

Thank you to the OP who posted about this group. I joined as an alumna and will be keeping tabs on it from afar (sadly too far for me to attend in person.)

I hope the first event went well without any problems.

Yes, it is puzzling.

Cambridge is full of (in no particular order):

Money donated for 'Queer Studies' chairs and PhDs
Rich humanities students who have too much time to think about their outfits
People with ASD who feel different
Students who want to change the world and do a bit of activism
Well meaning but naive middle class people

It didn't used to be quite this bad but went very nuts during Covid. The collapse of humanities in other universities has just made the insulated bubble even worse. A load of people got appointed after George Floyd (I still don't understand why this was such a big deal in a small town in the Fens) to decolonize everything in sight as well and now we appear to be stuck with them.

I have to say that Cambridge has gone dramatically down in my esteem since reading about the abuse those women have suffered from other students.

It is utterly shameful and undermines any notion that graduates from Cambridge are "the best and the brightest".

Oh well done Hadley 🙌 Always makes her point with clarity and intelligence!

Not just looking like incompetent fools but BEING incompetent fools. In a sector where intelligent thought is the core of everything, how can they possibly face admitting that they got it all so catastrophically wrong? Far better - in their eyes - just to keep going and hope you can outrun the inevitable reckoning.

Great article by Hadley. I’m excited though a little nervous to attend the event on Tuesday. There’s one like minded woman in my department and I couldn’t persuade her to come as she’s afraid of the consequences so I’ll be going alone but hopefully not leaving alone.

Yet more evidence of how this ideology renders those caught up in it as looking to be incompetent fools. 😁

Great argument Alison! We could file it along with "what about male cleaners in women's toilets" and "i bet you share a bathroom with men at home"

These students are brave and switched on, all power to them ✊

The principal, Alison Rose, has defended the “trans inclusive” policy by arguing that Newnham was never, actually, single sex, because students’ boyfriends can stay over, an argument that manages to be even dumber than gender ideology.

Excellent, Hadley.

Hadley Freeman has a column about them in The Sunday Times today.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/4b37df66-356c-46de-8f9f-c96e930fbbd6?shareToken=8a9ed7b95274f01cac0b47af00d86e11

Sadly can’t make it but would have loved to go!

Hoping I might see some mumsnetters at the Jo Bartosch event on Tuesday?

And just from that account of his speech, as i pointed out on the GLP thread:

He complained that when Theresa May announced the consultation on changing the Gender Recognition Act to allow for self identification back in 2018, “literally no one cared”.

Maugham knows that this is a lie, as he originally donated to Jennifer James’ crowdfunder to take action against the Labour Party over TIMs on women only shortlists all the way back in the mists of time of 2017, even before Foxing Day. Or maybe he thinks the women who cared then are “literally no one”? Either way, he’s a disingenuous dick.

He's about as coherent as some of our ploppers.

This bit:
’The small section in the back where I sat was avoided like the plague by most people who walked in after me; they’d veer over, seeing empty seats, before noticing me. They’d then recoil and take a seat in the other, more crowded sections. This happened a few times.’

I can’t imagine behaving like that, even if I disagreed with someone strongly. It just shows to what ludicrous depths these people have sunk with their purity politics.

Fox bothered at Cambridge

https://x.com/CUSocOfWomen/status/1989802206300967386?t=596sTmcf8G7Yg9V4WUjNsw&s=19

She responded so clearly and astutely to the ‘intersex’ trap-question.

These young women are so impressive.

She’s a great spokeswoman! Comes across as really clear and unflappable (but I’m sure it’s hard work for all three of them). Thanks for the link